I am always searching for pop culture happenings to see if anything piques my interest, and lo and behold, something has. Just when I think this story will die on the vine, it doesn't, and it grows and twists, which is rare in an era of hyperpublicists and iron-fisted curation of celebrity narratives and images. Stories like this require a perfect recipe of timing, luck, and a stubborn cast of players whose room-reading skills are shockingly horrible. Topped with a heavy dollop of gargantuan ego and a pinch of recklessness, garnished with entitlement, this dish is still simmering on the stove.  This story has been developing for months, with recent news that Blake Lively plans to testify in her ill-conceived case against Justin Baldoni next year. Baldoni is counter-suing for hundreds of millions and leaking salacious tidbits to the press, feeding the news cycles with fresh red meat. His astute team has taken the temperature and knows we need a distraction from the bleak political l...

Now I see what Naomi Campbell saw in Robert De Niro. Two angry assistant abusers in love, what a couple. True passion. What his ex-assistant, Graham Chase Robinson (her name sounds like a command!) says is outrageous. If this is true, then my God, the man is an OG Bad Boss, more like his unsavory characters than not. Bobby D, what happened to you? And yet, there is always another story within a story. What really started out as a problem between him and Chase Robinson(!) sounds like, at the root, a struggle for power between the two closest women in his life.                                    If you are wondering if a name-drop is going to happen, then you are correct. He's one of the celebrities I encountered at a downtown trendy restaurant opening in NYC. He is tiny, older than he looks on camera, very shy and polite. There were some shenanigans at play, but that story is nuts and for another ti...